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Monthly CIRC Symposia
Every third Friday of the month, the Center for Integrated Research Computing hosts a research symposium (known as the CIRC Symposium), where faculty, staff, and student researchers convene to learn about research projects utilizing the center’s resources, meet potential collaborators, and learn about new technologies and trends in research computing. This event is user-driven and features presentations by researchers using CIRC systems. CIRC Symposia are open to all members of the university community and a complimentary lunch is provided.
The Center for Integrated Research Computing (CIRC) will host its next symposium on Friday, November 15th, 12:00 – 1:00 pm in Wegmans 1400.
This month’s featured speaker is Yishu Jiang from the Department of Chemistry. Prof. Jiang will highlight the study of biological systems with excited state chemistry.
Accessing Biological Systems with Excited-State Chemistry
Yishu Jiang, PhD
Department of Chemistry
Excited-state species, generated by light, heat, or chemical reactions can stimulate distinct modes of chemical reactivity. Biomolecular excited-state species, like those involved in bioluminescence and magnetoreception, can promote new catalytic processes with potential applications in chemical synthesis and access photo- and magnetic controlled regulation of gene expression in cells. Mechanistic investigations and applications of biomolecular excited states remain challenging because of their transient lifetime and instability outside biological contexts. Our lab therefore will employ an interdisciplinary approach based on organic synthesis, physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry, and biochemistry to study and utilize biomolecular systems that host excited state processes for catalysis and photoresponse biology.
Information about previous CIRC Symposia is available.
CIRC Summer School
Every summer, CIRC hosts a four-week training session on various operating systems, programming languages, computational programs and libraries, and data analytics tools for the research community. Known as the “CIRC Summer School,” these workshops are broken down into individual topics and feature small, interactive, classroom-based instruction sessions. Topics range from basic training in Linux to optimizing codes for parallel computing. The courses are designed for beginner and advanced users alike. Extra emphasis is placed on using the various available languages, libraries, etc., specifically on BlueHive.
CIRC Winter Boot Camp
Have you ever wanted to learn how to program or add a new programming language to your existing knowledge? Have you been looking for the right time to pick up a few essential technical computing skills to help with your research projects or course work? Well, now you have the opportunity during the CIRC Winter Boot Camp!
The Center for Integrated Research Computing (CIRC) hosts a multi-week winter program to help students, postdocs, research staff, and faculty learn new programming languages and sharpen their computing and data analytics skills. The classes are designed for beginners and cover basic topics to give enough direction to move on to self-learning tutorials or other more advanced coursework.
Check again soon for an announcement about the next Winter Bootcamp!
CIRC Workshops
The Center for Integrated Research Computing (CIRC) offers workshops every Spring and Fall that introduce users to the BlueHive computing environment and other computing resources that CIRC supports. The workshops include sessions in the morning targeted for new and beginning users, and afternoon sessions covering a few more in-depth topics and tools and applications that are available to the research community.
If you would like more information, please contact CIRC or follow the link below.
Check again soon for an announcement about the next CIRC Workshop!
Annual CIRC Poster Session
The Center for Integrated Research Computing holds the Annual CIRC Poster Session at the end of each Spring semester. At this event, attendees discover the wide range of research that is enabled by computation and displayed to the University community. This event provides an informal venue to share computational and data analytics techniques and methodologies with colleagues from a wide variety of disciplines.
Check again later for an announcement about the next CIRC Poster Session!